Wallace Reid

🎂 Data nașterii: 1891-04-14 (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA)

Wallace Reid was an American actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". Wallace Reid appeared in several films with his father, and as his career in film flourished, he was soon acting and directing with and for early film mogul Allan Dwan. In 1913, while at Universal Pictures, Reid met and married actress Dorothy Davenport. He was featured as Jeff, the blacksmith, in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and had an uncredited role in Intolerance (1916), both directed by D. W. Griffith; he worked with leading ladies such as Florence Turner, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Elsie Ferguson, and Geraldine Farrar en route to becoming one of Hollywood's major heartthrobs. Already involved with the creation of more than 100 motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. Lasky and starred in over 60 films for Lasky's Famous Players film company, which later became Paramount Pictures. Frequently paired with actress Ann Little, his action-hero role as the dashing race-car driver drew young girls and older women alike to theaters to see his daredevil auto thrillers such as The Roaring Road (1919), Double Speed (1920), Excuse My Dust (1920), and Too Much Speed (1921). While en route to a location in Oregon during filming of The Valley of the Giants (1919), Reid was injured in a train wreck near Arcata, California and needed six stitches to close a 3-inch (8 cm) scalp wound. To keep on filming, he was prescribed morphine for relief of his pain and Reid soon became addicted, but kept on working at a frantic pace in films that were growing more physically demanding, and changing from 15–20 minutes in duration to as much as an hour. Reid's morphine addiction worsened at a time when drug rehabilitation programs were non-existent. He died in a sanatorium while attempting to recover.

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Joan the Woman

Rent Free

The Love Burglar

The Dancin' Fool

The Affairs of Anatol

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

The Leading Lady

The Phoenix

The Indian Raiders

The Reporter

His Only Son

War

The Mother of the Ranch

A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli

The Seventh Son

Chumps

The Path of True Love

Jean Intervenes

Playmates

Indian Romeo and Juliet

The Illumination

Brothers

The Victoria Cross

At Scrogginses' Corner

The Telephone Girl

The Hieroglyphic

Fortunes of a Composer

Early Days in the West

Virginius

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

Kaintuck

His Mother's Son

At Cripple Creek

Before the White Man Came

The Gamblers

A Man's Duty

The Secret Service Man

Making Good

Hunted Down

The Hidden Treasure

A Daughter of the Redskins

The Seepore Rebellion

Love and the Law

The Cowboy Guardians

The Tribal Law

An Indian Outcast

The Guerilla Menace

Song Bird of the North

Their Masterpiece

Calamity Anne Takes a Trip

Pirate Gold

Pride of Lonesome

The Powder Flash of Death

The Picket Guard

A Foreign Spy

Mental Suicide

A Rose of Old Mexico

The Eye of a God

When Jim Returned

Near To Earth

The Tattooed Arm

The Ways of Fate

The Brothers

The Kiss

The Heart of the Hills

Youth and Jealousy

The House of Silence

The Dub

Too Many Millions

The Wheel of Life

A Flash in the Dark

The Thing We Love

Thirty Days

The Greater Devotion

Fires of Conscience

Breed o' the Mountains

The Man from Funeral Range

Regeneration